But what FF14 does have is a crafting system where you need to put in dozens of hours leveling all of the crafting jobs to even have a chance at producing anything remotely useful.
Having levelled them all several times, rubbish.

Dozens of hours? Hardly.

Useful? Immediately.

Crafting is interdependent, quite frankly, having levelled it pre AND post changes, it is a damned sight faster than it was in 2019.

No RNG which is what makes it worthwhile.

Hence WOW's RNG. It also has recipes which you CANNOT GET unless you do the hardest content, as an example, lets say you want to make a 620 weapon, its gated behind an UNREAL instance and it has a CHANCE to drop, again meaning it may never drop................AT ALL.

WOWs crafting is like the rest of WOW, a predatory system to keep you playing..AND PAYING...as long as possible.